Africa

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  12 February 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "The lives of Malians are at risk": Justice and Peace condemns the lack of food and medicine Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "People are dying of easily treatable diseases. The poor do not have the money to buy medicine in pharmacies", denounces Martin Chiphwanya, deputy national Secretary of the "Justice and Peace" ...
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  10 February 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The Bishop of Bangassou: "We are continuously under LRA attack, but nobody talks about it" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the beginning of 2016 my diocese has been continuously under LRA attack and nobody talks about it", denounces to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Juan José Aguirre Muños, Bishop of Bangassou ...
• 10 February 2016
  AFRICA/NIGER - Archbishop of Niamey: "Let us vote in complete freedom, without ethnic or sectarian influences" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "During Lent there will be elections in our Country. As voters, activists and candidates, we must take care to put in first place the truth, where fraud seems to triumph, and respect the voice of ...
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  10 February 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Education and food, not bombs, for Sudanese refugees Yida (Agenzia Fides) - Around 60 percent of Sudanese refugees are minors, looking for an opportunity to complete school in South Sudan. One of the first stops for people fleeing the conflict in Sudan’s South Kordofan r ...
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  9 February 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Awaiting the arrival of the African Union delegation, but the population has little hope Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We await the arrival of the African Union delegation (AU) which should meet President Pierre Nkurunziza to try to convince him to accept the peacekeeping mission that the AU intends to send t ...
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  9 February 2016
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Religious leaders have organized moments of prayer for the elections of 18 February Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Uganda's main religious faiths join in praying for the successful holding of the general elections on 18 February. This was decided by the Council of Presidents of Inter-Religious Council of Uga ...
• 8 February 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The presidential run-off and the first round of legislative elections to be held on 14 February Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The second round of the Central African presidential elections will be held on Sunday, February 14. The two candidates are Anicet-Georges Dologuélé and Faustin-Archange Touadéra. They both hel ...
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  8 February 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 18-year-old Coptic girl missing; demonstrations against the scourge of "targeted" kidnappings against Christians Minya (Agenzia Fides) - More than 150 Coptic Christians took part in a sit-in convened last night, Sunday, February 7, in front of the provincial administration office in Minya, to sensitize the authorities and police fo ...
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  8 February 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New inter-community violence in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Clashes continue between the Hutu and Nande communities in the territory of Lubero, in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. According to information sent to Agenzia Fides, on Febru ...
• 8 February 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishop of Johannesburg Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 6, 2016, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Duncan Theodore Tsoke, as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Johannesburg (South Africa). He was assigned the titular see of Orreacel ...
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  6 February 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Diocese of Samalot is preparing to celebrate the first anniversary of the martyrdom of 21 Copts in Libya Samalot (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Samalot is preparing to celebrate the first anniversary of the martyrdom of 21 Copts killed in Libya by jihadists of the Islamic State (see Fides 16/02/2015). Cele ...
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  5 February 2016
  AFRICA/MALI - The attack against the UN is part of the jihadist strategy to destabilize the entire region Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The UN Timbuktu base was almost certainly attacked by an Islamist group, because the Tuareg rebel group are committed to respecting the peace agreements signed with the government", says to Agen ...
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  5 February 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "National dialogue" promoted by Kabila struggles to kick off Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - On January 16, the President of the African Union (AU) Commission of the, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, appointed Edem Kojo, former Prime Minister of Togo, as envoy of the AU to conduct the necessary ...
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  4 February 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - UN report: Rwanda trains Burundian refugees in order to overthrow President Nkurunziza Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - A report by UN experts accuses Rwanda of training and arming Burundian refugees welcomed in its territory in order to overthrow the President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza. The group of UN exp ...
• 4 February 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros begins his visit to the dioceses: let us say no to domestic violence Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Domestic violence, whose victims are mainly women and children, represent a devastating social phenomenon that has severe effects on people's lives and also on civil society. This is what Coptic O ...